Ski-U-Mah (magazine)

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One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929. Skiumah.jpg
One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929.

Ski-U-Mah (pronounced sky-you-ma), was the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota [1] (and named for a U. of M. sports cheer) from about early 1920s to 1950. The magazine was affiliated to the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity in the university. [2] It was modeled on Harvard Lampoon . [3]

Its most prominent writer was Max Shulman, [4] who later wrote the stories that became the television program The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis .

References

  1. Douglass K. Daniel (December 3, 2009). Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. University of Texas Press. p. 22. ISBN   978-0-292-78236-5 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. C. L. Sonnichsen (2000). Ten Texas Feuds. UNM Press. p. 10. ISBN   978-0-8263-2299-9 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  3. R. Dixon Smith (January 1, 1985). Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: Spanning the Decades with Carl Jacobi . Popular Press. p.  9. ISBN   978-0-87972-287-6 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  4. "Shulman, Max". American National Biography Online. Retrieved December 27, 2015.